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Architecture: Form, Space, & Order (Paperback)
by (shelved 862 times as architecture)
avg rating 4.29 — 4,029 ratings — published 1979
Towards a New Architecture (Paperback)
by (shelved 758 times as architecture)
avg rating 3.93 — 4,929 ratings — published 1923
The Architecture of Happiness (Hardcover)
by (shelved 719 times as architecture)
avg rating 3.86 — 14,376 ratings — published 2006
A Pattern Language: Towns, Buildings, Construction (Center for Environmental Structure Series)
by (shelved 717 times as architecture)
avg rating 4.42 — 5,382 ratings — published 1977
101 Things I Learned in Architecture School (Hardcover)
by (shelved 707 times as architecture)
avg rating 4.08 — 5,706 ratings — published 2006
Thinking Architecture (Hardcover)
by (shelved 664 times as architecture)
avg rating 4.24 — 3,558 ratings — published 1998
The Poetics of Space (Paperback)
by (shelved 663 times as architecture)
avg rating 4.18 — 11,050 ratings — published 1957
The Eyes of the Skin: Architecture and the Senses (Paperback)
by (shelved 626 times as architecture)
avg rating 4.38 — 4,300 ratings — published 1996
The Death and Life of Great American Cities (Hardcover)
by (shelved 602 times as architecture)
avg rating 4.29 — 19,603 ratings — published 1961
The Ten Books on Architecture (Paperback)
by (shelved 536 times as architecture)
avg rating 4.04 — 2,722 ratings — published -15
Complexity and Contradiction in Architecture (Paperback)
by (shelved 508 times as architecture)
avg rating 4.09 — 1,901 ratings — published 1957
In Praise of Shadows (Paperback)
by (shelved 505 times as architecture)
avg rating 4.01 — 29,528 ratings — published 1933
The Image of the City (Paperback)
by (shelved 467 times as architecture)
avg rating 4.05 — 4,160 ratings — published 1960
Delirious New York: A Retroactive Manifesto for Manhattan (Paperback)
by (shelved 463 times as architecture)
avg rating 4.24 — 3,645 ratings — published 1978
Modern Architecture: A Critical History (Paperback)
by (shelved 401 times as architecture)
avg rating 4.09 — 2,113 ratings — published 1980
Learning from Las Vegas: The Forgotten Symbolism of Architectural Form (Paperback)
by (shelved 390 times as architecture)
avg rating 4.01 — 2,552 ratings — published 1972
Atmospheres: Architectural Environments. Surrounding Objects (Hardcover)
by (shelved 389 times as architecture)
avg rating 4.42 — 2,543 ratings — published 2006
S, M, L, XL (Hardcover)
by (shelved 377 times as architecture)
avg rating 4.25 — 1,831 ratings — published 1995
Experiencing Architecture (Paperback)
by (shelved 374 times as architecture)
avg rating 4.03 — 2,134 ratings — published 1959
The Timeless Way of Building (Hardcover)
by (shelved 360 times as architecture)
avg rating 4.37 — 2,619 ratings — published 1978
A Visual Dictionary of Architecture (Paperback)
by (shelved 357 times as architecture)
avg rating 4.30 — 1,734 ratings — published 1995
The Architecture of the City (Oppositions Books)
by (shelved 353 times as architecture)
avg rating 4.03 — 1,309 ratings — published 1966
Brunelleschi's Dome: How a Renaissance Genius Reinvented Architecture (Paperback)
by (shelved 324 times as architecture)
avg rating 3.91 — 28,049 ratings — published 1999
Invisible Cities (Paperback)
by (shelved 315 times as architecture)
avg rating 4.10 — 95,591 ratings — published 1972
How Buildings Learn: What Happens After They're Built (Paperback)
by (shelved 312 times as architecture)
avg rating 4.35 — 1,854 ratings — published 1994
The Fountainhead (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 284 times as architecture)
avg rating 3.89 — 335,741 ratings — published 1943
Neufert Architects' Data, Third Edition (Paperback)
by (shelved 259 times as architecture)
avg rating 4.40 — 1,855 ratings — published 1936
Modern Architecture Since 1900 (Paperback)
by (shelved 245 times as architecture)
avg rating 4.10 — 1,201 ratings — published 1982
The Devil in the White City: Murder, Magic, and Madness at the Fair That Changed America (Hardcover)
by (shelved 236 times as architecture)
avg rating 4.00 — 749,566 ratings — published 2003
Building Construction Illustrated (Paperback)
by (shelved 232 times as architecture)
avg rating 4.31 — 1,575 ratings — published 2014
From Bauhaus to Our House (Paperback)
by (shelved 227 times as architecture)
avg rating 3.77 — 4,187 ratings — published 1981
Architectural Graphics (Paperback)
by (shelved 216 times as architecture)
avg rating 4.21 — 1,082 ratings — published 1974
Yes is More: An Archicomic on Architectural Evolution (Paperback)
by (shelved 212 times as architecture)
avg rating 4.05 — 1,520 ratings — published 2009
The Seven Lamps of Architecture (Dover Architecture)
by (shelved 206 times as architecture)
avg rating 3.83 — 937 ratings — published 1849
The Four Books of Architecture (Paperback)
by (shelved 201 times as architecture)
avg rating 4.16 — 609 ratings — published 1570
Cities for People (Hardcover)
by (shelved 197 times as architecture)
avg rating 4.35 — 2,378 ratings — published 2010
The Pillars of the Earth (Kingsbridge, #1)
by (shelved 194 times as architecture)
avg rating 4.35 — 820,207 ratings — published 1989
Life Between Buildings: Using Public Space (Paperback)
by (shelved 192 times as architecture)
avg rating 4.35 — 1,372 ratings — published 1971
Architecture Without Architects: A Short Introduction to Non-Pedigreed Architecture (Paperback)
by (shelved 179 times as architecture)
avg rating 4.23 — 746 ratings — published 1965
Architecture As Space (Paperback)
by (shelved 174 times as architecture)
avg rating 4.01 — 725 ratings — published 1948
Space, Time and Architecture: The Growth of a New Tradition (Hardcover)
by (shelved 168 times as architecture)
avg rating 4.15 — 488 ratings — published 1941
Happy City: Transforming Our Lives Through Urban Design (Hardcover)
by (shelved 161 times as architecture)
avg rating 4.36 — 9,206 ratings — published 2012
At Home: A Short History of Private Life (Hardcover)
by (shelved 160 times as architecture)
avg rating 3.99 — 98,055 ratings — published 2010
Genius Loci: Towards a Phenomenology of Architecture (Hardcover)
by (shelved 155 times as architecture)
avg rating 4.26 — 512 ratings — published 1979
Design Like You Give A Damn: Architectural Responses To Humanitarian Crises (Paperback)
by (shelved 151 times as architecture)
avg rating 4.12 — 848 ratings — published 2006
A Field Guide to American Houses (Paperback)
by (shelved 150 times as architecture)
avg rating 4.36 — 1,356 ratings — published 1984
A Global History of Architecture (Hardcover)
by (shelved 150 times as architecture)
avg rating 4.25 — 397 ratings — published 2006
The Thinking Hand: Existential and Embodied Wisdom in Architecture (Paperback)
by (shelved 148 times as architecture)
avg rating 4.36 — 738 ratings — published 2009
Analysing Architecture: The universal language of place-making (Analysing Architecture Notebooks)
by (shelved 135 times as architecture)
avg rating 4.10 — 570 ratings — published 1997
A History of Architecture: Settings and Rituals (Paperback)
by (shelved 130 times as architecture)
avg rating 4.07 — 610 ratings — published 1985
“The door handle is the handshake of the building.”
― The Eyes of the Skin: Architecture and the Senses
― The Eyes of the Skin: Architecture and the Senses
“Gracie: You have an unusual house. Have you lived here long?
Bobby Tom: A couple of years. I don't much like it myself, but the architect is real proud of it. She calls it urban Stone Age with a Japanese Tahitian influence. I sort of just call it ugly.”
― Heaven, Texas
Bobby Tom: A couple of years. I don't much like it myself, but the architect is real proud of it. She calls it urban Stone Age with a Japanese Tahitian influence. I sort of just call it ugly.”
― Heaven, Texas












